Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
News on fake news75
Shaping gender policies at the COPs34
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse27
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies15
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics14
Limits, frontiers, antagonism14
Critical junctures beyond the black box13
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power13
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments12
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds12
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective11
Review of Scotto di Carlo (2025): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage11
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis11
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Review of Rüdiger & Dayter (2025): Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language9
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader9
“You are fake news”8
“The rock of stability?”8
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict8
Setting boundaries between crime and rights8
Equivocation in media communication7
Perception of charisma in text and speech7
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections7
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Visions of the good future6
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
Multimodality as civic participation6
Enemy narratives5
Which energy, whose South?5
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A fence of opportunity5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20205
Traditional beliefs as target and weapon5
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Examining political influence on language5
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump5
When domestic violence becomes ‘family conflict’4
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political4
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
‘A resilient Europe’?4
Discourses on Racism and Resilience4
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament4
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley4
Discourse theory and the turn to practice4
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings3
No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Review of Taylor, Goodman & Dunmore (2025): The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities3
Navigating the ideological tide3
From controversy to common ground3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
Discursive shift in Slovak politics3
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Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
From socialism to neoliberalism3
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
Review of Ali (2024): Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla2
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences2
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression2
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language2
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Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy2
“We pursue justice”2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
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Far-right discourse in Brazil2
New opportunities for discourse studies2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
On the language of liberalism2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
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Populist radical right beyond Europe2
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis2
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer1
Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship1
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
‘They will not survive here’1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine1
The populist radical right in Australia1
The groundwork of Putin’s war1
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics1
Racialised vocabularies of resilience1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
The discursive construction of “the people” through the othering of sexual and gender minorities during the 2020 Polish presidential election1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey1
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Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies1
Linguistic landscapes of activism1
Entrepreneur or capitalist?1
Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
The language of power or the power of language?1
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Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse1
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Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
Political homophobia0
The singular “national citizen” in English language textbooks in Pakistan0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president?0
Doing gender at the far right0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
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The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
Review of Pradhan & Gupta (2025): Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures0
“Peace cannot cost us our lives”0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
Embodied resilience and political resistance0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
From capitalist production to neoliberal lifestyle0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Beyond the law0
“A closed border is a compassionate border”0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
Belonging and borders0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
National identity revisited0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Review of Lam Sut I (2023): A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government: Two Decades of Change in Macao0
Capturing power in diplomatic language use0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
Review of Wang & Huan (2025): Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies0
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Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
Navigating Brexit through fear0
The American abortion debate0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Harvey (2025): The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions0
Representing societies in language teaching textbooks0
Inside the echo chamber0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Rickety democracies0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
“We are workers, we are not slaves”0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
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Reverberations0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians use populismo and populista on Tw0
It takes two to tango0
National citizens in a sanitized vision of global economy in Japanese ELT textbooks0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
What’s in a name?0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
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“The youths are wiser now”0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Review of Li & Hu (2021): Reappraising Self and Others: A Corpus-based Study of Chinese Political Discourse in English Translation0
Activism or slacktivism?0
Borderless fear?0
‘Presidential’ is in the ear of the beholder0
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The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Normalization of ecological civilization in Chinese news media0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis0
Review of Claridge (2025): News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press0
Populism and contingency0
Review of Frawley (2024): Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age0
Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials0
Review of Du (2025): Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
“Does being pretty help?”0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
Racialising the resilient brain0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Leadership in numbers0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
The role of gender in the evaluation of politicians in an online debate0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
The normalization of liquid racism in migrant narratives0
The Tennessee three0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Supplementing the tropes0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Review of Moore & Hauser (2025): Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric0
Systemic racism and ideology in media representations of #BlackLivesMatter0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
Disalignment in the EU0
The leader and the people0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
The power of language0
When performance studies meet discourse theory0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
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“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money0
Resilience in labour markets, a curse?0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
From “them” to “us”?0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Huang (2024): The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions, and Co-option0
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